The U.S. Division of Transportation has prolonged to Jan. 23, 2023, the interval for feedback on its proposed rule on enhancing the transparency of airline ancillary service charges. The earlier deadline had been Dec. 19.
The company initially introduced the proposed rule in September and filed it within the Federal Register in October.
DOT famous that it had acquired requests for an extension from Airways for America, the Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation, the Journey Know-how Affiliation, the American Society of Journey Advisors, the International Enterprise Journey Affiliation, the Nationwide Air Service Affiliation and Sabre Company. A4A and IATA additionally requested for clarification on varied points within the proposal, in response to DOT.
Beneath the proposal, U.S. carriers, international carriers and ticket brokers can be required to obviously disclose passenger-specific or itinerary-specific baggage charges, change charges, cancellation charges and household seating charges to customers each time fare and schedule info is supplied to customers for flights to, inside and from the US.
The proposal picks up the place earlier ones failed to realize traction. DOT in 2014 issued a discover of proposed rulemaking relating to ancillary charges. It then issued a supplemental discover in January 2017 on payment transparency however withdrew it in December 2017. President Joe Biden on July 9, 2021, issued an government order “Selling Competitors within the American Financial system” which famous that the Secretary of Transportation would “not later than 90 days after the date of this order, think about initiating a rulemaking to make sure that customers have ancillary payment info, together with ‘baggage charges,’ ‘change charges’ and ‘cancellation charges,’ on the time of ticket buy.”
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